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The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders took the Ice Bucket Challenge, as did George W. Bush, Troy Aikman and Tony Romo. Some were better than others. (screenshot from dallascowboys.com)

You’ve certainly seen your friends, family and favorite celebrities participating in the Ice Bucket Challenge, which is making a splash all over social media. Participants dump ice-cold water over their heads and challenge others to do so, too, in 24 hours. Those who don’t are asked to donate to the ALS Association, a nonprofit that raises money for Lou Gehrig’s disease research. Many who take the ice bucket challenge also donate, not but all.

George W. Bush: Dubya post-presidency is pretty darn amusing. He tells the camera: “I do not think it’s presidential for me to be splashed with ice water, so I’m simply going to write you a check.” And then look what happens.

Troy Aikman: There’s no pomp and circumstance here. Troy Aikman stands in a corner of what looks like his yard, dumps ice from a cooler onto his head, and passes along the challenge to three more people. Simple.

Tait Lifto of Rabbit Hole Brewing: The local brewery’s “sales sensei” (as Tait Lifto calls himself) is rarely short on imagination. Before he takes to the ice water, he challenged our very own craft beer editor Tiney Ricciardi to take the plunge. (She accepted.) He loaded up a big gray trashcan dumped from above by his buddies on a fork lift. Brr.

Selena Gomez: The singer and on-again, off-again girlfriend to Justin Bieber who grew up in North Texas took the ice bucket challenge fearlessly.

A man suffering from ALS: Among all the silly videos is this touching one of a man who has suffered from ALS for 12 years. It has left him immobilized. The man formerly lived in Rockwall, CBS reports, but now resides in Connecticut. He used ice cubes in the shape of Texas.

Honorable mention — for a Texas group who did a great Ice Bucket Challenge — though it wasn’t in North Texas:

Kliff Kingsbury and the Texas Tech football team: Kliff Kingsbury employed the use of high-in-the-sky apparati to drench his team in icy water. Coach Hunk does not do this shirtless — which seems like a serious missed opportunity, amirite? — but he does challenge Beyonce by wearing a shirt that says “Beyonce is Bae.” (Don’t know what “bae” means? This TIME story spells it out. You will feel even less hip after reading it.) Queen Bey still hasn’t accepted the challenge yet.

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